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House GOP fights off Democratic attempts to protect Obama environmental rules

By Kyle Feldscher
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House GOP fights off Democratic attempts to protect Obama environmental rules

President Obama’s allies in the House couldn’t save some of his key environmental regulations from Republican amendments in a massive spending bill Tuesday night.

Republicans put many policy provisions into the $32.1 billion funding bill for the Department of Interior and Environmental Protection Agency that struck at the heart of Obama’s regulatory agenda. Democrats tried to keep those policies from making it to a final vote, but failed.

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